The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime

Edited by Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy

Description

Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a wider range of crimes. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime reflects this growing diversity and provides authoritative overviews of current research and theory on how gender and sex shape crime and criminal justice responses to it.

The editors, Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy, have assembled a diverse cast of criminologists, historians, legal scholars, psychologists, and sociologists from a number of countries to discuss key concepts and debates central to the field. TheHandbook includes examinations of the historical and contemporary patterns of women's and men's involvement in crime; as well as biological, psychological, and social science perspectives on gender, sex, and criminal activity. Several essays discuss the ways in which sex and gender influence legal and popular reactions to crime. An important theme throughout The Handbook is the intersection of sex and gender with ethnicity, class, age, peer groups, and community as influences on crime and justice. Individual chapters investigate both conventional topics - such as domestic abuse and sexual violence - and topics that have only recently drawn the attention of scholars - such as human trafficking, honor killing, gender violence during war, state rape, and genocide.

The Oxford Handbook of Gender,Sex, and Crime offers an unparalleled and comprehensive view of the connections among gender, sex, and crime in the United States and in many other countries. Its insights illuminate both traditional areas of study in the field and pathways for developing cutting-edge research questions.

The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime

Edited by Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy

Author Information

Rosemary Gartner is Professor of Criminology and Sociology at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the co-author of three books: Violence and Crime in Cross-National Perspective (Yale, 1984), Murdering Holiness: The Trials of Edmund Creffield and George Mitchell (University of British Columbia Press, 2003) and Marking Time in the Golden State: Women's Imprisonment in California (Cambridge, 2005).

Bill McCarthy is Professor of Sociology at the University of California Davis. He is the co-author (with John Hagan) of Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness (Cambridge, 1997).

Contributors:

Kristin Bumiller is the George Daniel Olds Professor in Economic and Social Institutions at Amherst College.Kerry Carrington is a professor of law in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology.Lynn S. Chancer is a professor of sociology at Hunter College-City University of New York.Frances R. Chen is a PhD candidate in criminology at the University of Pennsylvania.Carolyn A. Conley is a professor of history at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.S. J. Creek is an assistant professor of sociology at McKendree University.Theodore R. Curry is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas, El Paso.Martin Daly is a professor emeritus of psychology, neuroscience, and behavior at McMaster University.Jodi Death is a lecturer in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology.Jennifer L. Dunn is a professor of sociology at Texas Tech University.Richard B. Felson is a professor of criminology and sociology at Pennsylvania State University.Gabrielle Ferrales is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota.Holly Foster is an associate professor of sociology at Texas A&M University.Irene Hanson Frieze is a professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.Yu Gao is an assistant professor of psychology at Brooklyn College-City University of New York.Rosemary Gartner is a professor of criminology and sociology at the University of Toronto.Barry Godfrey is a professor of sociology, social policy and criminology at the University of Liverpool.Elzbieta M. Gozdziak is the Director of Research at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.Daniel J. R. Grey is a lecturer in world history at Plymouth University.John Hagan is a department chair and John D. MacArthur Professor of sociology and law at Northwestern University.Renée Heberle is an associate professor of political science at the University of Toledo.Kristy Holtfreter is an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University.Valerie Jenness is a professor of criminology, law, and society, sociology, and nursing science at the University of California, Irvine.Maria Jung is a PhD candidate in criminology at the University of Toronto.Julia Kasselt is a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law.Charis E. Kubrin is an associate professor of criminology, law, and society at the University of California, Irvine.Ross Macmillan is an associate professor of sociology at Universita Bocconi.Suzy Maves McElrath is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Minnesota.Bill McCarthy is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis.Daniel Kevin Mckelvey is a PhD candidate in psychology at East Tennessee StateUniversity.Jody Miller is a professor of criminal justice at Rutgers University.Jaime Morse is a PhD candidate in sociology at Northwestern University.Randolph R. Myers is an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at Old Dominion University.Dietrich Oberwittler is a senior researcher in sociology at the University of Freiburg and Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law.Candice L. Odgers is an associate professor of public policy and psychology and neuroscience and the Associate Director of the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University.Vanessa R. Panfil is a post-doctoral associate at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice.Dana Peterson is an associate professor of criminology at the University at Albany, State University of New York.Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta is an academic assistant at the Max Weber Programme of the European University Institute.Jill Portnoy is a PhD candidate in criminology at the University of Pennsylvania.Adrian Raine is the Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.Summer J. Robins is a PhD candidate in psychology at the University of California, Irvine.Randolph Roth is a professor of history and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at Ohio State University.Michael A. Russell is a research associate at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University and a PhD candidate in psychology and social behavior at the University of California, Irvine.Robert Schug is an assistant professor of criminal justice and forensic psychology at California State University, Long Beach.Katreena Scott is an associate professor of applied psychology and human development and a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto.Greg T. Smith is an associate professor of history at the University of Manitoba.Michael Smyth is an assistant professor of sociology at Susquehanna University.Glen A. Trager is a PhD candidate in criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine.Mariana Valverde is a professor of criminology at the University of Toronto.Sara Wakefield is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Rutgers University.Ronald Weitzer is a professor of sociology at George Washington University.Tammy Whitlock is a lecturer in history at the University of Kentucky.Stacey L. Williams is an assistant professor of psychology at East Tennessee State University.Yaling Yang is a postdoctoral researcher in neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime

Edited by Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy

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"This is an outstanding volume on crime, gender, and sex because it has been written by scholars whose studies are based on research, and whose articles include their own insight developed over long years of study and experience." --BizIndia

The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime

Edited by Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy

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Most organized crime falls into one of two distinct types: illegal industries and mafias. Both types of activity have been dominated by men, but there are many historical examples where women also participated, particularly in illegal industries.

'Honor killings' consistently make the headlines, from a Brooklyn cab driver convicted of conspiracy to a recent decapitation in Pakistan. However, it's become increasingly difficult to sort fact from fiction in these cases. We asked Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy, editors of The Oxford Handbook on Gender, Sex, and Crime, to pull together an essential grounding for this muddled subject matter. Here they've adapted some information from 'Honor Killings' by Dietrich Oberwittler and Julia Kasselt (Chapter 33).